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Senior Olympic racewalker fine-tunes fitness routine

Meghan Streit

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September 28th, 2015

Linden Ponds resident

Ed Petcavage has always made an effort to exercise, but since moving to Linden Ponds, he has taken his physical fitness to a whole new level. Over the summer, he competed in the National Senior Olympic Games in Minnesota, where he placed eighth in racewalking.

“It was a great experience,” Ed says. “The national games go on for two weeks, and they have a big opening ceremony with a big torch, just like regular Olympics—except with more people. There were about 10,000 people competing in Minnesota.”

Ed says his career as a landscape architect kept him active, but he never joined a gym or had a formal fitness routine. When he moved to